Service and Application Development for Operating System Android

Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.

Course Description

It is dealing with: Kotlin programming language basics, Android operating system architecture, graphical user interface design, use of specific hardware, access to data on Android, use of REST web services on Android, creation of REST web services.

Prerequisites

Java programming

Study Programmes

University undergraduate
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Learning Outcomes

  1. describe elements of operating system Android
  2. develop application for operating system Android
  3. apply graphical user interface elements in Android
  4. use specific hardware in Android
  5. develop distributed application in Android
  6. know efficiently working in small team

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

attending lectures

Work with mentor

working on the project lead by advisor

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Introduction to Android and basics of application development
  2. Introduction to Kotlin and comparison to Java
  3. Graphics user interface elements 1
  4. Graphics user interface elements 2
  5. Services and asynchronous background process execution
  6. Local read/write data
  7. Time for midterm exam
  8. Consuming REST services
  9. Dependency management: Gradle, product flavors
  10. no lectures
  11. no lectures
  12. no lectures
  13. no lectures
  14. no lectures
  15. Project presentation

Literature

John Horton (2019.), Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners, Packt Publishing
https://kotlinlang.org (.), Kotlin,
http://developer.android.com (.), Android Developers,

General

ID 214703
  Winter semester
3 ECTS
L1 e-Learning
18 Lectures
50 Seminar
0 Exercises
0 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises

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